 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1909 - 636 pages
...would not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets of iron framed ; Vain, those...her sons. So, let his name through Europe ring— A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta's king. Because his soul was great. SIR FH DOYLE.... | |
 | Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher - Great Britain - 1909 - 388 pages
...those consummate captains ? Even to-day I think much is to be said for Sir Francis Doyle's view : — Vain mightiest fleets of iron framed, Vain those all-shattering...England keep untamed The strong heart of her sons ! The activity of Britons in the Eighteenth Century was by no means wholly confined to the making haste... | |
 | David Richard Porter - English poetry - 1911 - 292 pages
...would not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets of iron framed ; Vain, those...of her sons. So, let his name through Europe ring — A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta's king, Because his soul was great. SIR FRANCIS... | |
 | Frederick LANGBRIDGE - 1911 - 510 pages
...would not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets of iron framed ; Vain, those...of her sons. So, let his name through Europe ring — A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta's king, Because his soul was great. CLX PHIL... | |
 | Child rearing - 1911 - 602 pages
...That is the only solid, permanent strength of the Empire; all else will in the end be worth little. " Vain mightiest fleets of iron framed, Vain those all-shattering guns, Unless proud England keeps untamed The strong heart of her sons." Duty and Discipline in the Training of Children n The... | |
 | American poetry - 1912 - 624 pages
...would not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets of iron framed, Vain, those...of her sons; So let his name through Europe ring, — A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta's king, Because his soul was great. Francis Hastings... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1913 - 1048 pages
...would not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets of iron framed ; Vain, those...of her sons. So, let his name through Europe ring — A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta's king, Because his soul was great. i8p. The... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - English poetry - 1914 - 108 pages
...would not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets of iron framed ; Vain, those...of her sons. So, let his name through Europe ring — A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta's king, Because his soul was great. FRANCIS HASTINGS... | |
 | Vere Henry Collins - English poetry - 1914 - 198 pages
...would not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets of iron framed ; • Vain,...of her sons. So, let his name through Europe ring — A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta's king, Because his soul was great. INCIDENT... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1914 - 142 pages
...not shrink, With knee to man unbent, 30 Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets of iron framed ; Vain, those...all-shattering guns ; Unless proud England keep, untamed, 35 The strong heart of her sons. So, let his name through Europe ring — A man of mean estate, Who... | |
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Yes, honour calls! — with strength like steel He put the vision by. Let dusky Indians whine and kneel; An English lad must die. And thus, with eyes that would not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he... 
